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Ongoing

Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees

About the partnership

With large-scale newcomer arrivals in 2015-16 highlighting the limits of conventional approaches to reception/integration and calling for more coordinated responses across different stakeholders and levels of governance, the Urban Agenda Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees was created with the goal to improve migrant and refugee inclusion in the medium- and long term.

Members

Member States

  • Denmark
  • Greece
  • Italy
  • Portugal

Urban Areas

  • Amsterdam (NL, Coordinator)
  • Athens (EL)
  • Barcelona City Council (ES)
  • Berlin (DE)
  • Helsinki (FI)

European/ national city umbrella organisation

  • Eurocities
  • URBACT

Other stakeholders

  • Migration Policy Group

European institutions

  • European Commission (DG Home as coordinator, DG REGIO, DG EMPL, JRC)
  • Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)
  • Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)
  • European Committee of the Regions
  • European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
  • European Investment Bank (EIB)

Concrete actions

01

Recommendations on the protection of unaccompanied minors

02

Towards more evidence-based integration policies in cities setting the agenda, exploring comparable indicators & developing a toolbox for good practice transfer

03

Improving access for cities to EU integration funding

04

Establishment of an Academy on Integration strategies

05

Establishment of an European Migrant Advisory Board

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